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Determinants of facework in intercultural negotiation

Asian Journal of Communication, 1997
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether culture has a global influence, or if culture plays a more refined role in influencing communication. Specifically, this study compares two perspectives on the effect of culture on communication behaviour during negotiation.
Deborah A. Cai, William A. Donohue
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Facework and uncertain reasoning in health communication

Patient Education and Counseling, 2011
Health care professionals often need to convey good and bad prospects to patients, and these news can be qualified by various uncertainty terms. Based on a sociolinguistic analysis of the way these uncertainty terms are used, we predicted that they would be interpreted differently by patients as a function of whether they qualified good news or bad ...
Pighin, Stefania, Bonnefon, Jean-François   +1 more
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Facework on Social Media in China

2021
Abstract With more social interactions shifting to online venues, the different attributes of major social media sites in China influence how interpersonal interactions are carried out. Despite the lack of physical co-presence online, face culture is extended to online spaces. On social media, Chinese users tend to protect their own face,
Xiaoli Tian, Qian Li
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Facework and Culture

2016
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Please check back later for the full article. Facework represents an important mediation of the intersection between an individual’s private self-conception and the individual’s need to cooperate—or
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Power Distance and Facework Strategies

Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 2006
This study utilized Hofstede's (2001) study that tested whether Hofstede's power distance (PD) dimension of culture is an important predictor for understanding cross-cultural facework. It investigated how cultural groups differing in their level of PD negotiate strategic responses (i.e., cooperative, indirect, or direct) to a face-threatening situation
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From good manners to facework

Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2011
Forms and conceptions of politeness vary noticeably from one society to another, and also, within a given society, from one age to another. However, it can be assumed that the treatment of politeness phenomena in terms of “facework” as advocated by Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) might help us to shed some light on both cultural variations and ...
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Facework Solidarity, Approbation, and Tact

Human Communication Research, 1991
This study extended Brown and Levinson's model of politeness in order to explain more complicated forms of interaction and proposed three different types of facework: solidarity, approbation, and tact. The effects of three social factors—relational intimacy, power difference, and the right to perform a given act in a given situation—on the three types ...
TAE-SEOP LIM, JOHN WAITE BOWERS
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Facework in Responding to Unethical Communication

International Journal of Business Communication, 2014
Unethical communication occurs fairly frequently in organizations, yet confronting someone about an ethical transgression is a politically sensitive interaction that challenges people’s identities. This study integrates a social confrontation approach and politeness theory to identify politeness strategies people perceive as effective and socially ...
Kathleen S. Valde, Mary Lynn Miller Henningsen   +1 more
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Staatlichkeit, Deliberation und Facework

2018
Die Begegnung zwischen Bürgern und Mitarbeitenden der öffentlichen Verwaltung kann nicht lediglich als bürokratische Implementation von Normen verstanden werden und folgt nicht dem Muster einer „lebenden Maschine“ (Max Weber), sondern Interaktionen auf Ämtern enthalten Praktiken des Austauschs von Argumenten und Gegenargumenten.
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Facework in Chinese service encounters

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 2000
This study investigates politeness phenomena in Chinese service encounters, contrasting the use of facework in two types of service encounters: state-run vs. privately-owned stores. I argue that politeness is a dynamic process, which involves participants’ perception of a social setting and the assumed interpersonal relationship in a given situation ...
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